Climate change

In a brief talk entitled “Futures of Climate Change“, Brad Allenby – Distinguished Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University (ASU) – outlines three areas of emerging technologies and argues that we are unhelpfully trapped in outdated mental models on climate change and related sustainability problems. The three emerging technologies are: Technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from … [Read more…]

Philip Chubb – Head of Journalism in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University – recently published a new book on climate policy and politics in Australia entitled Power Failure: The Inside Story of Climate Politics Under Rudd and Gillard. In Power Failure he seeks to understand “what really happened inside the … [Read more…]

Following my recent doctoral assessment a fellow PhD student at the Institute for Sustainable Futures asked me a very timely question: “so what?”. I took this question to be probing about the need for and potential benefits of my research. I reflected on this during my flight home and tried to identify the various layers … [Read more…]

This is a huge topic, and one that I plan to return to often on this blog. This post has been prompted by my recent reading of the book The Dynamics of Sustainable Innovation Journeys (Geels et al., 2011) and attendance at the 2013 Sustainable Living Festival. The editors of this book describe three strategies which … [Read more…]

In early June I attended an innovative dialogue in Brisbane that brought together the public, scientists and other ‘informants’ (of which I was one) that was organised by the Federal Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRT). The dialogue is one of many being conducted for a new community engagement project that … [Read more…]